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Need a Change? Grab Your Resilience Bucket & Light Up Your Life

Need a Change? Grab Your Resilience Bucket & Light Up Your Life

Aug 6, 2022 | Multimedia, Navigating Change

Change of any sort requires resilience. Interestingly, it can also create resilience. As we take action, we grow our capacities. The trick is to know when to do, when to rest, and when to realign.  What I call the Resilience Bucket provides a way to visualize our...
Getting My Ducks in a Row: Change Happens Moment by Moment

Getting My Ducks in a Row: Change Happens Moment by Moment

Jul 6, 2022 | Meditation, Navigating Change

Just last week, I wrote, “I’m barely into animals and I rarely fall down rabbit holes of YouTube animal cuteness.” And I meant it. Until a couple of days ago, when I needed to simply duck out. I’d hit a wall and needed some respite. There’s always beauty in the world,...
Apple TV’s Series Foundation: A Portal to the Healing Power of Awe | Part 2: Awe on Demand

Apple TV’s Series Foundation: A Portal to the Healing Power of Awe | Part 2: Awe on Demand

Jun 29, 2022 | Happiness, Pop Culture

In Part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the awe-inspiring title sequence from Apple TV’s sci-fi series, Foundation. Today, I’ll precisely define awe, outline its benefits and teach you how to generate Awe Experiences on demand. “Awe is defined as the emotion we...
Awe Injection via Powerful Women: Channeling Athletes to Generate Awe

Awe Injection via Powerful Women: Channeling Athletes to Generate Awe

Jun 22, 2022 | Happiness, Pop Culture, Trauma

As I declared last week, awe is easy to generate, readily available, and a viable mental health intervention that can be self-administered. It is also the most underrated and unacknowledged happiness emotion. Next week, we’ll get into the nitty-gritty of...
Apple TV’s Series Foundation: A Portal to the Healing Power of Awe | Part 2: Awe on Demand

Apple TV’s Series Foundation: A Portal to the Healing Power of Awe

Jun 15, 2022 | Happiness, Pop Culture

Part 1: High on Awe (Watch this first: https://youtu.be/VkV2nx6fRTA) I’ve been bitten by a bug. It looks a lot like love and, like love, this has turned me into a bit of a crazy person (assuming that watching the same video dozens of times is … well … a bit off). But...
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